NEW poll has Trump at 43% approval – majority says he should GIVE SOTU speech!

by SooperMexican

A new poll has pretty high approval for Trump, and also says that a majority of Americans want him to give the State of the Union speech.

Dang, that’s pretty impressive. Other polling, which is clearly all fake news polls, has him at a much lower approval. But for Fox News polling, even this a low:

Approval of President Trump’s job performance stands at 43 percent, down three points from 46 percent in December. This marks his lowest approval in nearly a year; it was 43 percent in February 2018. Currently, 54 percent of voters disapprove of the job he’s doing. Disapproval has been higher twice: 57 percent in October 2017 and 55 percent in August 2017.

His approval is at or near record lows among men (45 percent) and “very conservative” voters (83 percent). Since last month, approval dropped 10 points among both Republican women (from 93 to 83 percent) and suburban men (from 53 to 43 percent), and 7 points among white evangelical Christians (from 78 to 71 percent).

Some other results in the poll:

More voters say the federal shutdown is a bigger issue than the border: 75 percent consider the shutdown an emergency or major problem. That’s far more than the 59 percent who feel the same about the situation at the border.

Large numbers of both Democrats (81 percent) and Republicans (74 percent) describe the shutdown as an emergency or major problem. On the border situation, Republicans (87 percent) are 50 points more likely than Democrats (37 percent) to call it an emergency or major problem.

The perceived gravity of the shutdown doesn’t translate into a bipartisan urgency to end it. Rather, more than one third of wall opponents (37 percent) want Democrats to keep the government shuttered until Trump gives in, while two-thirds of pro-wall voters (69 percent) want Trump to keep the government shut until Democrats give in.

And there’s no end in sight.


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